IDC Research Types
Analyst
Analyst Profile
Provides complete background information on an IDC analyst. Each profile provides a biography, a notable quotation, a frequently asked question relevant to the particular analyst's focus, and a list of research authored by that analyst.
Team Profile
Lists the analyst members of a topical team. Outlines general areas of coverage and any specialties.
Briefs
Flash
Provides rapid IDC insight and analysis about a significant industry event or conference, merger or acquisition, product announcement, or other fast-breaking news affecting the IT market.
Forecast Update
Provides a short, quick look at an updated forecast and the changed assumptions behind the update. It updates a market forecast published in the same calendar year, identifies changed and key forecast assumptions, and highlights actions for participants to consider in light of the changes.
IDC Insight
Provides coverage and analysis of an industry event, new product or service, or a company announcement or development.
Update
Provides brief overview coverage of what is happening in a market.
Vendor Profiles
Provides a concise, hard-hitting profile of an emerging vendor. A profile will highlight new players and technologies and the potential paradigm shifts or disruptions a vendor represents.
Daily Graphics
Daily Graphic
Illustrates IDC's keen analysis of major market trends in downloadable PowerPoints. Available as a free download the day it appears, an IDC Daily Graphic provides valuable material for speeches and strategic planning.
Event Proceedings
Event Proceeding
Provides published slides, audio, and other materials from IDC and Insights Web conferences, briefings, forums, or other events.
Events
Conference
Delivers dependable, relevant, and high-impact data and insight to help organizations make sound business and technology decisions. eBusiness executives, IT professionals, IT suppliers, and services suppliers benefit from the strategic insight and networking opportunities IDC conferences offer. Generally, all presentation slides are available online, and for most conferences, streaming audio of key discussions is available as well.
Web Conference
Focuses on significant trends and paradigm shifts. Each Web conference will provide attendees with leading-edge market information that will enable them to make smart business decisions. For those unable to attend in person or those wishing to review the content presented, these synchronized multimedia presentations are available online.
IDC DecisionScapes
IDC FutureScape
Serves as a framework for IT/tech professionals' IT strategy and planning for the next one to three years. It lists IDC's top 10 worldwide technology trends for the coming one to three years in a given research area and includes related drivers, projected IT/business strategy impact, and guidance.
IDC MarketScape
Helps IT/tech professionals develop a short list of suitable suppliers when selecting a vendor. Provides an unbiased assessment of tech suppliers in terms of offerings, strategy, capabilities, and other important factors in a given technology area.
IDC MaturityScape
Describes five stages of "maturity" or capability for a particular technology area, helps IT/tech professionals understand where their organizations fit within those stages, and provides guidance on key components for planning successful improvements to a tech initiative.
IDC MaturityScape Benchmark
Helps IT/tech professionals to benchmark their maturity against peers, develop a business case for a tech initiative, and build consensus about where critical IT investments should be made. Presents quantitative research results that show the market distribution for a given tech initiative across the five stages of maturity presented in the related IDC MaturityScape. Shows the results and components of particularly successful initiatives.
IDC PeerScape
Gives IT/tech professionals insight into best practices (and practices to avoid) by providing specific use case examples implemented by peers. Identifies practices that have the most impact on the success of a tech or business initiative, and provides actionable guidance for each practice.
IDC PlanScape
Helps IT/tech professionals to justify and plan a business and/or technology investment or opportunity by exploring why, what, who, and how (these are also the main section headings). Presents key players, critical success factors, risks, and actions to consider for a designated technology and/or business management area.
IDC TechScape
Helps IT/tech professionals with developing IT strategic plans and evaluating emerging technologies in terms of their risk to the business. Shows the adoption curve and risk levels over time for a specific emerging technology. Sorts technologies into three "adoption model" categories (transformational, incremental, opportunistic) to help tech leaders determine the potential impact for their organization.
IDC Links
IDC Link
Provides timely context and insight around important market trends and events in a short opinion piece. IDC Links provide IDC's point of view on:
- Financial announcements
- Product announcements
- Mergers and acquisitions or divestitures
- Events
- Response to news
Insights-only Research
Best Practices
Correlates the use of specific practices and superior performance as indicated by an analysis of the benchmarking database. Highlights any significant differences between industries. Conclusions provide a set of process priorities for improving a business case and advice on how to overcome change management issues.
Business Strategy
Helps buyers to assess their business strategies and/or associated business processes, especially as they relate to the use of technology.
Methods and Practices
Provides a step-by-step description of a method or methods that can be applied. As appropriate, the report may compare the benefits and drawbacks of several methods.
Perspective
Presents an article written by an Insights analyst on a topic of special interest to a target audience. This information has generally already appeared in an industry publication and is repackaged for display on the Insights Web site.
Vendor Assessment
Helps buyers select the right IT supplier. The report helps buyers understand the various providers of a technology by providing analysis on market landscape, vendor profiles, vendor market share, and vendor assessments.
Pivot Tables
Pivot Table
Presents an interactive spreadsheet tool for analyzing trends and activities in a specific market segment. These tables are available only through an annual subscription service.
Predictions
Top 10 Predictions
Provides bold, well-conceived market predictions grounded in solid methodologies, primary research, and analyst experience. Lays out a clear road map to understanding major market opportunities and trends.
Presentations
IDC Presentation
Provides the latest, select CIS forecast data, primary research survey findings, and critical IDC analyst opinion in a succinct, easy-to-digest PowerPoint format.
IDC Survey
Presents a hypothesis about what is happening in the market backed by the results of a demand-side or supply-side survey. The focus is on interpreting and analyzing the survey results and providing a strong point of view along with actionable advice.
IDC Survey Spotlight
Answers a timely question and provides a strong opinion backed by IDC survey data. This is a quick nugget of information that is presented in two concise PowerPoint slides.
Insights Presentation
Provides an easy-to-use format to post on the Web presentations that were previously delivered at public forums (such as conferences and events) or for internal client meetings and client presentations. It may not come as part of a consulting/custom engagement.
Market Analysis Perspective
Delivers a concise current state view of a market and insight into the impact of future trends. Business executives, product managers, and MI/AR professionals can use this information when looking to understand buyers' perspectives and market impacts.
Press Releases
Press Release
Announces significant corporate news, such as key hirings or promotions, performance milestones, event highlights, or speaking engagements.
Product Information
Fact Sheet
Describes a research product. Usually details the major areas of coverage and deliverables, and outlines key questions and competitive market conditions that the research will address. Includes links to all published research for a research product.
Studies
Competitive Analysis
Provides a detailed accounting and review of a vendor's programs, processes, products, service, satisfaction, and/or strategy in a target market. This knowledge helps clients reduce their risk of losing market share or enhance their position over the competition.
Customer Needs and Strategies
Focuses on the important decisions that business and IT professionals make every day.
Industry Developments and Models
Provides a detailed assessment of a specific target market's expansion pattern. This analysis helps clients develop and deploy the right mix of value-add products, programs, or services to support their sales and/or partnering efforts.
Market Analysis
Provides an in-depth examination of the dynamics and future of a single market or a group of related markets. The Market Analysis is where we will typically present our forecasts and assumptions, using a key forecast assumptions table.
Market Forecast
Provides the future of a single market or a group of related markets. It presents a new or updated market forecast, including key drivers and assumptions used in the forecast.
Market Share
Provides data on market size, regional allocations, and platform splits as well as a summary of vendor shares for the most recently completed period (year, quarter).
Special Study
Provides a onetime study produced by a research group that is not published as a deliverable under a subscription service.
Survey
Provides a study and interpretation of the results of a demand- or supply-side survey.
Taxonomy
Highlights and emphasizes how IDC tracks the market while also making it easier for customers to find and identify IDC Taxonomy documents.
Technology Assessment
Provides an analysis of the intricacies of an emerging or established technology or the technologies contained within a specific product.
Vendor Needs and Strategies
Provides an in-depth analysis of a company, a small group of companies, a division of a company focused on a particular market, or a best practice that the company exemplifies.
In the first quarter of the company's 2020 fiscal year, Cisco announced revenue growth, increased its gross margin, and made additional share repurchases. However, the company's guidance for a revenue decline in the second quarter due to ...
When most companies start with a free videoconferencing solution to establish themselves in the market, 8x8 (NYSE: EGHT) is going the other way. Already an established vendor in the global voice, video, collaboration, and contact center ...
This IDC study provides IDC's top 10 predictions for enterprise network infrastructure for 2020 and beyond.
"Digital transformation has simultaneously created pressure on enterprise networks to evolve to meet the increasing demands ...
The positive vibe around Zoom and all its recent success was certainly present at the Zoomtopia 2019 event, not just about some of the new features/enhancements announced for its staple video collaboration offering, Zoom Meetings, but also ...
Cisco continued its recent earnings streak of solid revenue growth in the company's fourth fiscal quarter, with revenue increasing 6% year over year (y/y) to $13.43 billion and GAAP income of $2.2 billion. But weakness in the company's Chinese ...
To recap, Zoom's cloud-based platform delivers videoconferencing and audioconferencing, chat messaging, webinars, and now telephony with Zoom Phone across mobile, desktop, and room systems. With popular Zoom Video, companies can leverage ...
This IDC study provides an assessment of the capabilities and business strategies of nine vendors in the worldwide UC&C market for 2019.
"Organizations have a variety of deployment options to choose from today, but also the challenge ...
This IDC study provides a systematic assessment of technologies related to unified communications and collaboration (UC&C) in 2019. The IDC TechScape is an evaluation based on a comprehensive framework and a set of parameters that assess ...
In early June, Cisco welcomed almost 30,000 customers and partners to San Diego for its annual Cisco Live U.S. conference, where the company announced a series of enhancements to its network management products. These included a vision for ...
VMware revenue for 1Q20 was $2.27 billion, an increase of 13% year over year (y/y). SaaS comprised greater than 12% of total revenues, with 35% growth y/y. License revenue for the first quarter was $869 million, an increase of 12% y/y. Some ...
Cisco once again impressed investors with strong quarterly earnings for the third quarter of its 2019 fiscal year. Revenue growth has been consistently positive for six quarters as the company continues to execute on key initiatives, including ...
After spending a few days with the Cisco Collaboration leadership team led by Amy Chang, it is clear that the team is focused on the pillars of collaboration that leverage the Cisco security and with new features that help people work better ...
Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise (ALE) held its annual analyst conference named Connex19 from February 3 to 5, where it outlined its achievements from the previous year and laid out the company's future road map. The company has a multifaceted ...
This IDC Presentation provides the top 10 predictions for enterprise communications and networking business transformation in Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) (APEJ) for 2019. It is designed to provide Asian CIOs with an understanding of the ...
本調査レポート（プレゼンテーション）で、IDC Japan コミュニケーションズのグループマネージャーである草野 賢一は、世界と国内のネットワークサービス市場において、2019年～2024年に発生するネットワークに関する主要な10項目の予測（Predictions）について議論する。このPredictionsでは、国内ネットワークサービス市場において起こりつつある変革について分析を行っている。
今年の「IDC FutureScape」では以下に挙げるトピックを中心に取り上げる。
- 2020年までに国内企業の40％が、一部の拠点にセキュアかつ仮想化されたアーキテクチャを有するSD-WAN（Software ...
For the first time in a decade, Google announced a price increase on its G Suite offerings. Since that time, customers have seen over a dozen new products as well as artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning capabilities grow across ...
Altice has sold 49.99% of its fiber optic assets in French very low and medium density areas and will receive €1.8 billion to decrease its debt. The new company, SFR FTTH, a wholesale provider, already connects 1 million and will pass at ...
Oracle's purchase of Talari is driven by the vision that cloud-hosted real-time communications (RTC) application sessions need not just the security and management provided by session border controllers but also the predictability, availability, ...
On November 6, Twilio reported its 3Q18 earnings. The company recorded another impressive quarter of growth with revenue of $168 million, up 68% over 3Q17 and up 14% sequentially over 2Q18. GAAP net loss from operations was $25 million, ...
This IDC study offers IDC's top 10 predictions that will impact the enterprise networking sectors as they implement digital transformation (DX). The goal is to provide CIOs with the most important issues they should be considering as they ...
On October 23, 2018, Verizon its 3Q18 earnings results. The company reported total revenue of $32.6 billion, an increase of 2.8% over 3Q17 revenue. The healthy and surprising performance drove a spike of Verizon's stock price. Excluding ...
The Telecom Infra Project (TIP) initiative, launched by Facebook in 2016, recently completed its second annual U.K. innovation awards process. This culminated in an event hosted by BT on October 12 in which six finalists presented to a panel ...
Facebook Flow is the first leadership summit by Workplace by Facebook, Facebook's enterprise collaboration offering. Held at the Hotel Nia near the Facebook campus in Menlo Park, California, on October 9, 2018, it spotlighted the growth ...
BT Global Services (GS) held a business briefing for investors and financial and industry analysts in London on September 19.
5G officially arrives with the October 1, 2018, launch of Verizon's 5G Home service, a 5G residential fixed wireless access (FWA) service that allows consumers the first taste of what the technology can offer and provides the basis for real-world ...
This IDC Link summarizes IDC's opinion on information and strategy discussed at the CenturyLink 2018 Global Analyst Forum, held September 12 and 13, 2018. The discussions covered strategies and products across small and medium-sized businesses ...
Telia, the largest communication service provider in Sweden, has acquired Bonnier Broadcasting, from Bonnier AB, an established publisher and media company in Sweden.
This is the first European media acquisition by a telecom provider, ...
This IDC study uses the IDC MarketScape model to provide an assessment of 12 providers in the worldwide enterprise videoconferencing market. The IDC MarketScape is an evaluation based on a comprehensive framework and a set of parameters ...
This IDC study provides a systematic assessment of technologies related to unified communications and collaboration in 2018. The IDC TechScape is an evaluation based on a comprehensive framework and a set of parameters that assess the factors ...
For a second quarter in a row, Cisco recorded a solid quarter of revenue growth. Not only was there growth in the company's FY 3Q18 but revenue increased at a higher rate of 4% compared with the 3% growth last quarter. This YoY growth indicates ...
This IDC study presents a vendor assessment of the 2017 telecommunications ICT services market using the IDC MarketScape model. This assessment covers 10 key telecom service providers (SPs) on a worldwide basis. The assessment is based on ...
This IDC study provides IDC's top 10 predictions for the enterprise networking business transformation in 2018. It is designed to provide CIOs with an understanding of the external drivers, which will change the networking environment over ...
This IDC study provides an assessment of the capabilities and business strategies of 11 vendors in the worldwide UC&C market for 2017.
"Organizations have a variety of deployment options to choose from today, but also the challenge ...
The IDC study is designed for technology professionals in the IT buyer organization. The audience includes CIOs, IT directors, IT managers, IT architects, and IT buyers from within business lines and functions. It offers guidance on why ...